Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life, however bizarre, for granted.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every b…

It was an evening which, by some mysterious combination of failing light and the smell of an unrecognised plant, brings back to some men the sense of childhood…

Great God, and you witnesses of my death, I have lived as a philosopher, and I die as a Christian.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I some…

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ...Sometimes he makes us live.